Ravit Dotan, PhD asserts that beneficial AI adoption requires clarity of purpose, good judgment, ethical leadership, and making responsibility integral to innovation.

Ravit and Kimberly discuss the philosophy of science; why all algorithms incorporate values; how technical judgements centralize power; not exempting AI from established norms; when lists of risks lead us astray; wasting water, eating meat, and using AI responsibly; corporate ethics washing; patterns of ethical decoupling; reframing the relationship between responsibility and innovation; measuring what matters; and the next phase of ethical innovation in practice.

Ravit Dotan, PhD is an AI ethics researcher and governance advisor on a mission to enable everyone to adopt AI the right way. The Founder and CEO of TechBetter, Ravit holds a PhD in Philosophy from UC Berkeley and is a sought-after advisor on the topic of responsible innovation.

Related Resources

• The AI Treasure Chest (Substack): https://techbetter.substack.com/
• The Values Embedded in Machine Learning Research (Paper): https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3531146.3533083

A transcript of this episode is here.